Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Return to Law." Next day, and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's trip to the Capitol, was his mother's 85th birthday. "I don't think my son has the slightest wish [for a third term]," said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously...
Reporters at press conference next day found that the President had gone from hot-weather shirt sleeves into a grey suitcoat, seemingly new. Not new, said he: the suit was at least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...
...Continuing the arms embargo might make the Allies lose the war, deprive the U. S. of the nations which are now its buffer states against Fascism, leave the U. S. facing the Nazi-Soviet bloc across the Atlantic, force the U. S. to fight the next war caused by Fascist aggression. Rebuttal: The Atlantic is a broad ocean and the next war is not here...
...obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the curfew is at one. Occasionally, the Stork Club at City Square in Charlestown will see some after-hours playing, but not as the usual thing. Ardent swing fans had best direct their efforts towards the next election...
...Woody Herman, famous leader-clarinetist of "The Band That Plays the Blues", will be at the Minute Man Record Shop on Boylston Street next Wednesday from three to four. Besides having brought his band from mere local fame to a national peak in the space of one year, Woody is a brilliant musician and really knows whereof he speaks. Drop around and get him to tell you why he thinks all good jazz should be built on the blues--it's worth hearing...